FAQ
Who controls the money?
Whoever holds the agent wallet's key. On the hosted platform that is the operator, not the coin's creator: custody and trust says what that means and how to reduce it. If you run the agent yourself it is you. There is no Mandate contract, no admin key and no pooled funds either way.
What does it cost to launch?
The Pons launch fee and gas, paid from your wallet, plus the ETH you choose to buy with the launch and about 0.003 ETH of gas for the agent wallet. The platform charges nothing itself; the only thing it may take is the model bill, from the share of fees kept for it.
What if nobody trades my coin?
Then no fees arrive and the agent does nothing: no capital means no cycle and no model call. The board shows an honest zero.
Can I change the mandate afterwards?
Not on the platform: the mandate is public and part of what holders see. Launch another coin, or run the agent yourself.
Why 70% and 30%?
The agent needs a book to trade and a budget to think. 30% is enough for the model bill at default timing with a wide margin; what is not spent stays in the wallet.
Who pays the model?
The operator, up front. The operator may take back from the agent's 30% share what that agent's calls really cost, never more, and each transfer is in the agent's journal.
Why stocks and not memecoins?
These are tokenised stocks with Uniswap v3 pools against USDG on Robinhood Chain, each with an oracle history of thousands of observations, so a model can reason about them from a short snapshot. They also come with a clock: the stock market is open at known hours, which gives the model and the risk engine something real to work with. Memecoin pools are thinner and have no such clock.
Why is the model not allowed to trade directly?
Because a model can be wrong in ways that cost money, and the answer to that is not a better prompt. The model writes weights. Code decides. If the model is wrong, the cap, the cash floor, the cooldown and the breaker limit the damage, and the journal shows what it asked for next to what was done.
Can the mandate override the risk rules?
No. The rules are code in engine/risk.mjs. A mandate is only text the model reads.
What does it cost to run?
About a third of a cent per model call with Claude Haiku 4.5, so a few dollars a month at the default timing. Plus the pool fee on each trade (0.05% or 0.3%) and the estimated price impact. The journal records every cost.
Why does the weekend rule exist?
When NYSE is shut, the pool price of a tokenised stock can drift away from the real stock price and then jump back when the market opens. Buying into a drifting pool is the easiest way to lose money here, so new buys are blocked from Friday 20:00 to Sunday 20:00 ET and on NYSE holidays. Selling is always allowed.
What happens to the coin?
When the book makes new profit above its previous high, half of it buys the coin on its curve and burns it. No profit, no buyback. The coin is not a share of the book and gets no distribution.
Can I run my own agent?
Yes: run it yourself takes five commands, and the config builder writes the file for you. Start in paper mode.
Is the result real?
Paper results use real prices and the real engine, with simulated fills; the page says so. Live results use measured fills from real transactions. A paper result is a rehearsal, not a track record of trades.
How do I know the model saw what you say it saw?
Each decision links to a snapshot named by its SHA-256. Paste the hash in the verifier: your browser downloads the file, hashes it again and compares. Details in snapshots and verification.
Is it audited?
No. It is short and tested, but not audited by a third party. See security and limits.
Why only four stocks?
They are the tokenised stocks with a deep enough Uniswap pool against USDG and a long oracle history. Adding one is a config change, but every pool must be checked for depth first.
Is it affiliated with Robinhood?
No. Mandate is an independent project. It runs on Robinhood Chain, trades tokenised stocks that exist there, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Robinhood Markets, Inc.